The King’s Breakfast BY A. A. MILNE
The King asked The Queen, and The Queen asked The Dairymaid: “Could we have some butter for The Royal slice of bread?” The Queen asked The Dairymaid, The Dairymaid Said,…
2014
Good riddance, Rob Anders
TweetIt finally happened. The man who called Nelson Mandela a terrorist, insulted Canada’s veterans, and called for war against Russia, has suffered his first major defeat since he was first…
Never Again: Don Blankenship-Funded Video Absolves Don Blankenship in Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster Deaths
Don Blankenship’s hubris is surpassed only by his greed. The “Dark Lord of Coal Country,” as the former CEO of Massey Energy has been called, is using the fourth anniversary…
military propaganda at sports events reaches new extremes: continuous recruitment ads at baseball games
I’ve recently returned from a lovely trip to Boston, filled with so many of my favourite things: friends, family, books, and baseball. I love Fenway Park, and I’m always happy…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Will Hutton writes about Thomas Piketty’s rebuttal to the false claim that inequality has to be encouraged in the name of development –…
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out
It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy: despite endorsements of Anders by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Calgary cabinet heavyweight Jason Kenney, Liepert’s message that the area deserved…
I’ll watch Mad Men … but I’m not sure if I’ll enjoy it
The Big Cultural Event tonight is the return of Mad Men after a hiatus of what seems like five years. I’ll be watching, but not with great enthusiasm. I mean,…
Goddamn the CPR; God save the CBC.
One of our favourite Canadian journalists, Allan Fotheringham, wrote years ago about a Saskatchewan farmer who had everything go wrong who ends up blaming all his problems on the CPR.…
A Prematurely Old Man
Stephen Harper likes to boast that seniors are his most loyal supporters. You’ll notice that he has very little to say about the young. That’s because he really isn’t concerned…
I Come Not To Praise Flaherty
I have thus far avoided writing about Jim Flaherty’s passing for a very simple reason; it is difficult, if not impossible to keep separate his family’s personal loss with the…
Joel Rubinoff’s Angry, Ill Informed, Misleading Autism Rhetoric
Conor Doherty on World Autism Awareness Day 2014, as I tried to take a “selfie” of the two of us wearing blue, gave his old Dad an unexpected hug. As…
Prerequisites for Democratic Legitimacy
Anita Vandenbeld author of an article called ‘Imposing Legitimacy: The Dilemma of International Democratic Development’for LawNow magazine and former director of parliamentary affairs for Jacques Saada, the first minister of…
Rob Anders: The Con Loon Finally Bites the Dust
He tried every dirty trick in the book to try to win his nomination battle.He smeared his opponents as closet Liberals. He used misleading robocalls against them. He called on…
The Unfair Elections Act and the Madness of Stephen Harper
I never can decide which famous story Harperland reminds me of the most.The Emperor's New Clothes or Lord of the Flies.Or answer the questions historians will ask.Did he really think…
Flaherty’s Curtain
Jim Flaherty was unethical, incompetent and he should have been fired. Those aren't my words, they're Thomas Mulcair's, spoken just last year in Question Period. Yet after the former Finance…
Flaherty’s Curtain
Jim Flaherty was unethical, incompetent and he should have been fired. Those aren’t my words, they’re Thomas Mulcair’s, spoken just last year in Question Period. Yet after the former Finance…
Flaherty’s Curtain
Jim Flaherty was unethical, incompetent and he should have been fired. Those aren't my words, they're Thomas Mulcair's, spoken just last year in Question Period. Yet after the former Finance…
Flaherty’s Curtain
Jim Flaherty was unethical, incompetent and he should have been fired. Those aren’t my words, they’re Thomas Mulcair’s, spoken just last year in Question Period. Yet after the former Finance…